Abyss

1.A little girl, Yu Yan who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution in Mao Zedong’s China. 2.She remembers how happy they were at the beginning thinking China is a powerful country. 3.However, things dramatically changed over time and China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong started the Cultural Revolution in 1966. YU YAN 4.I am having difficulty understanding why we talk about the victory in the civil war happened 20 decades ago? 5.Her father explains that Mao believed the Government is not…

Outside, I concluded, I had not departed the freezing north, and the vast expanse of snow only ended in a dark abyss not even the moon could light. To the left, I could decipher the towering, dim mass of my unexpected, unbelievable savior. To my shock and dismay, we were alone. The imprint of the harpoon pressed against my side under the layers of fur, for the monster…

Love is a game that many will play, but few will win. Love is simply a risk that has to be taken to proceed to the next step, even though someone may have to suffer the heart break and disappointment when the first step has failed. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest two individuals become over taken by the luminous thought of love at first sight. Even though the love may seem too quick to last forever it shows deep connections between the two young adults that could last a life time. Throughout the…

Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is, I look at my cellphone to turn off the sirens going off on my alarm. I spend about 10 minutes on my phone viewing any notifications, messages, and timelines on my social media. Once I notice the time on my phone I quickly start to get ready for the day. While getting ready I listen to music on my phone and keep an eye on the time to make sure that I am not running late. Throughout the day I consistently check my email, both personal and…

Storytelling is easy as, picking your favorite book or novel and telling others about it. Most stories have a hero or a villain, which is basic common knowledge of any story. Archetypes are things that we use everyday without even realizing it. Archetypes are any idea, image, or basic unit of expression that appears in art, mythology, or around the world. Archetypes are also known as the “Stock Character” of the story. Joseph Campbell was the one that created the Hero’s Journey as an archetype…

surface. I feel my lungs begin to collapse, my heart begins to swell, and my limbs begin to throb. I sink further into the sand, I feel sand crabs scamper across my feet, shells brush against my ankles, and my thoughts disappear into the deep, dark abyss. It is all gone. My recent memories resurface in my brain – the memories from earlier today: waking up in my warm bed back in…

Jamal being the good friend that he is did not snitch out Forrester. Then out of nowhere Forrester showed up to his class and entered the scene like this “My name is William Forrester, excuse me I’m that one” for the first time ever he is out of dark abyss of his lonely apartment. As Forrester looked around he picked up a piece of paper and gave this speech “Losing Family. Losing family obliges us to find our family. Not always the family that is our blood, but the family that can become our…

War Trauma; The Influence it Placed on Remarque’s Writing “On the threshold of life, they faced an abyss of death…” (A.W. Wheen, as quoted in All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front represents an idea of loss of innocence. Soldiers during this time period are at the “threshold” of their lives, as quoted by Wheen, to only face the brutal horrors of war. The horrors of the war steal the innocence away from these young men without them even knowing. These…

I’ve downed several flasks of whiskey now. My mind feels clouded, disoriented and dizzy yet I keep drinking. Reckless, I am under the influence of spirit, I know it’s right for me to stop but I won’t, I can’t. Despite my hazy state, I still feel pain, I’m drowning, suffocating under the guilt, remorse and oh the pain…... There is no escape whatsoever. What I felt before, when the lust of battle died in me, when I started cursing everyone without a second thought, is nothing, NOTHING, compared…

In his letter, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, leader in the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., powerfully replies to criticisms regarding his cause and his actions. King’s purpose is to prove to his criticizers that his cause is right and just. He adopts a condemnatory tone in order to convey his disapproval with the clergymen’s criticisms and excuses. It’s Dr. King’s strong use of diction that has the greatest impact on making this piece so powerful and effective. Diction Dr.…